For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour ...

Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the prime ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s ...

Clement Attlee was one of the most successful leaders in modern Britain yet was habitually shy, laconic and self-deprecating. He believed in basic honesty and accountability. When asked whether he ...

(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...

Like many another middle-class British family back in the ’30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem’s duties permitted, a trim ...

As Tony Blair today overtakes Clement Attlee as leader of the longest uninterrupted Labour government, the two leaders' six-year records are being compared. On the face of it, that seems absurd. How ...

Paul Willer, who lives in Gloucestershire, was sponsored by the Labour party leader Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister whose government founded the welfare state, looked after a child refugee ...

Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s post-war leaders. Surveys for Britain’s best prime minister usually ...